Performing polity : women and agency in the Anglo-French tradition, 1385-1620 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Collette, Carolyn P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Turnhout : Brepols ; 2006.
Series:	Medieval women--texts and contexts ; 15.
Subjects:	Women > England > Social conditions. Women and literature > England > History > To 1500. Women and literature > England > History > 16th century. English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Christine de Pizan : mapping the routes to agency
Philippe de Mezieres, the good wife, and le bien publique
Political Griselda : L'Estorie de Griseldis and Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Politics
The power of the virgin : gaining the right to speak
Anne of Bohemia and the intercessory modes of Ricardian England
Catherine of Aragon, a New Griselda for a new polity
'Nowe leaft of' : the York pageants of the death, assumption, and coronation of the virgin
Walter Triumphans : performing polity in late Tudor-Stuart England.